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From National Book Award-winning author Judy Blundell, a thrilling account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
When Minnie Bonner's father disappears after losing the Bonners' Philadelphia tavern, the wealthy gentleman Edward Sump, led by his avaricious wife, offers Minnie a chance to work as a lady's maid to support her family. The Sumps have grand plans, grander than the city of Philadelphia can offer, however, and decide to move to San Francisco -- the greatest city in the west. But when a powerful earthquake strikes, Minnie finds herself the sole survivor among them. After the dust settles, Minnie discovers a bag belonging to the Sumps filled with cash and papers that could drastically change her fortune. With no one else to claim it, Minnie has turned into an heiress overnight.
Wealth comes at a price, though, and she is soon wrapped up in a deception that leads her down a dangerous path. As the aftermath of the earthquake ravages the city, Minnie continues to maintain her new identity. That is, until a mysterious but familiar stranger appears.
- Sales Rank: #618968 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-01
- Released on: 2013-03-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Gr 5-8-When her father loses the family business in a series of bad bets, 14-year-old Minette Bonner must work off the debt as a lady's maid for a wealthy family, moving with them from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Minnie soon finds that her own family's losses are much more complicated than she originally thought. The Sumps, however, throw around money to assure their place in San Francisco society. Minnie arrives, along with Mrs. Sump and her daughter, Lily, just in time to overhear secrets that help explain her own family's troubles and to experience the 1906 earthquake. The quake throws the world into chaos and offers Minnie new choices, including the chance to masquerade as Lily in order to save her own family. When viewed through the lens of a story about a girl's new life in a new city, this novel fits with a middle school audience. When considering the complex socioeconomic and political issues at work, however, it will be appreciated by older students. An interesting piece of historical fiction and a solid purchase.-Sarah Knutson, American Canyon Middle School, CAα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
Can teen housemaid Minnie pretend to be wealthy young heiress Lily Sump after the latter is killed with her parents in San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake? Indeed, it is a chance to avenge her family after they had been swindled out of their livelihood by the corrupt Mr. Sump and his cronies. This tantalizing prospect propels Blundell’s lively Dear America series entry. The vivid portrayal of the wreckage and ensuing fires captures the horror of the catastrophe and provides a striking backdrop to Minnie’s wrenching drama and crisis response. Even an overly convenient ending does not lessen the pull of the fascinating concept at the story’s core: Could we assume another person’s life? Grades 4-6. --Anne OMalley
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PRAISE FOR DEAR AMERICA:
"More than a supplement to classroom textbooks, this series is an imaginative, solid entree into American history." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"An impressive series that will challenge students to make connections from prominent historical events to relevant life situations. . . . A wonderful asset to the classroom as well as to home libraries." --CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW SERVICE
"Engaging accessible historical fiction." --SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
"The Dear America diaries represent the best of historical fiction for any age."
--CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
good historical fiction for middle grade readers
By M. Tanenbaum
Dear America is a go-to for historical fiction for young people, and the series keeps expanding with more titles by award-winning authors. One of the newest entries is by Judy Blundell, author of award-winning YA novel What I Saw and How I Lied, among others. In this novel, she presents the diary of a 14-year old Philadelphia girl, Minnie Bonner, the daughter of a French tavern owner who has deserted his wife and child. His wife sends her only daughter Minnie into service as a lady's maid for the young daughter of a rich family, the Sumps, who are moving to the great city of San Francisco.
As the reader can guess by the title, they arrive to a luxurious life in San Francisco just days before the earthquake strikes. Without giving away too much of the story, let's just say that in the immediate chaos after the great shock, Minnie finds herself confused for the Sumps' daughter, a great heiress, and confronted by moral dilemmas she never contemplated. As the disaster spreads into a firestorm that threatens the destroy the entire city of San Francisco, Minnie must decide who she is, who she wants to be, and what her destiny will be.
This is a real page turner for middle-grade readers. In the addition to the obvious excitement of the earthquake and its aftermath, Blundell adds a story of con men, political graft, and good and evil, personified by corrupt politicians and courageous firemen, among others. Although there is a female heroine, and this series is predominantly marketed to female readers, this novel, with its great sense of adventure, could easily appeal to boys as well. Highly recommended!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
One Star + Spoilers May Follow
By Andromeda
This is the second book I read in the new, reboot of the Dear America series and I was disappointed. Clearly they changed the series a bit before although there was a plot, the event or time period was what was for most the story, in this on there was more drama added.
I didn't like the drama. Minnie ends up a maid for the daughter of a wealthy family after her father loses her family's restaurant, he gambled it away. She arrives in San Francisco mere days before the earthquake and fire. Nearly every person in the book is horrible it feels like it was written this way so that Minnie doesn't come off as horrible when people mistake her for the wealthy daughter she was a servant too. Minnie allows this to continue for some time but your suppose to sympathize with her because the family was horrible. That's a justification for pretending to be someone who actually died in the earthquake? Also, the daughter she was pretending to be wasn't horrible, she was a nice girl.
It also comes out that the father in the family had set up Minnie's father to get the restaurant. Again this feels like this is made so you feel sorry for Minnie and her father. Minnie's poor father who had been established in the book as having a gambling problem, have lost money before many times and disappeared, is the victim when someone else worse. The man he went up against was horrible, but he was the one who gambled, he was the one who lost the restaurant and he was the one who abandoned his family after the loss.
In the original series, although the girls telling stories had their own story, the historical event was the main story. In Remember's diary the Mayflower and the hardships that followed were the main story it served as the reason for Remember's hardships. In Titanic, there was Margaret's experiences on the Titanic. Not the case in this book Minnie isn't from San Francisco, she has no ties to the city and no interested in being there, so when the earthquake hits, there's no real emotional payoff. It only serves to move Minnie into the lawyer's house to learn more of the plan that her father had been targeted and less about the event itself. It would have been nice if the book about the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire had been about the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Too Much Mystery, Not Enough History
By L. M Young
One moment Minnie Bonner is helping her extravagant French father and practical mother run their tavern in 1906 Philadelphia. Next thing she knows, her mother has hired her out as a maid to a stuck-up, social-climbing newly rich couple and their vacuous teen daughter because her father has lost the tavern, and all their money, gambling. Her mother promises she will work hard for the next two years and then send for Minnie, who will be moving out to San Francisco with the nouveau riche Sump [yes, Sump as in the pump] family.
Lonely, unhappy, and angry, Minnie's first morning in San Francisco is more terrifying than she can imagine: because the family has arrived just in time for the great San Francisco earthquake and fire.
When Scholastic brought the "Dear America" series back in 2013 for a few books, they decided the books also needed a mystery element, I guess since "girls like mysteries!" So instead of getting to know Minnie and her family, and get a little insight into her character, we are plunged pell-mell into Minnie being shipped off with the Sumps and then the moment she arrives the earthquake takes place, just after she finds out there is something shady about Mr. Sump. The best part about the book is Minnie's description of the earthquake, its fire aftermath, and how some of the citizens of San Francisco rally to save their neighborhood. It's well described and at times very suspenseful. The rest of the story is filled with a bunch of cliches: the two-dimensional Sumps (who live up to their name), a crooked lawyer (is there any other kind in stories like this?), and another evil character who might as well tweak his mustache and cackle like Snidely Whiplash. When another character is introduced, you know immediately he's the person Minnie will later marry. It would have been nice if we actually saw Minnie with her dad at the beginning instead of having flashbacks, and then Minnie getting used to San Francisco before the fire, but we're just popped into the plot. I suspect the author could have written that story, too, judging by the fire scenes, but she was ordered by her Scholastic editors to "cut to the chase." A pity, as this could have been a much better book.
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